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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leon Blum, the party's leader, presented resolutions endorsing French rearmament against the Fascist "menace." He wanted the U. S., Great Britain, France, Poland and Soviet Russia to form a democratic front against the dictatorships so that they would have to concede no more to threats of war. M. Blum also wanted France to revive the now moribund French-Soviet alliance...
...suggestion of the Prime Minister. A knighthood went to Stephen Joseph Pigott, managing director of the John Brown shipyards where they were built. The award of Commander of the Order of the British Empire went to George Patterson (Cunard-White Star's chief naval architect) and Donald M. Skiffington (John Brown yard director). Honest Tommy Rankin, foreman of the riveters who put the Queen Mary together, became a member of the Order of the British Empire...
Opposed to M. Blum was his old friend Paul Faure, the party's secretary general, an old-line Socialist. M. Faure said he believed peace should be kept at all costs, no "entangling alliances" with either democracies or dictatorships should be made. Bad as the peace of Munich might have been, M. Faure believed it was better than war. At the end of long debate the new Socialism won: Leon Blum's resolution was endorsed, 4,322-to-2,837, with 1,004 abstaining...
...M. L. A.'s pleased delegates proceeded to trade each other all sorts of useless knowledge. From Harold W. Bentley, managing editor of American Speech, they got a report on names of U. S. towns and cities. Samples: Social Circle, Wide Mouth, Jingo, Sleepy Eye, Matrimony, Hot Coffee. University of Virginia's Professor Atcheson L. Hench delivered a scholarly discourse on the history of the term "stark-naked" (from start-naked, literally: buttocks-naked). Most superbly useless piece of information given to the convention was a paper on The Pronunciation of German Surnames in Potosi, Wisconsin...
...American Association of Teachers of German, meeting just before M. L. A., had squelched a resolution of sympathy with "victims of fanaticism in Germany." In protest, the New York City chapter threatened to secede from...